Transformations of a Genre - Bog af Ralph Cohen - Paperback

The aim of this book is to orchestrate ¿a generic reconstitution of literary studies¿ based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking ¿An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,¿ a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations¿including Addison¿s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy¿s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel¿in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity..